skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (not Poland) was partitioned because it consisted of so many different cultures, had massive conflicts within (Targowica Confederation, the Polish nobility fought back against the constitution, causing the second and third partition), and fell prey to more powerful "progressive" powers, which sadly worked to put an end to multi-ethnic states in Europe.

No one tried to destroy the Polish culture, people or language. Rather, it was the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth that got destroyed. In 1815, most of the eastern parts of this Commonwealth stayed with Russia - as no one there spoke Polish, and the concept of the congress of Vienna was to separate people by their nation. Today, some Poles even hate the Lithuanians, and vice versa.

In the territories claimed by Prussia, there was a significant German population. The bourgeoisie of the cities of West Prussia, especially those of the old Hanseatic cities like Danzig, had always been predominantly German-speaking.

The areas claimed by Russia were dominated by Greek-Orthodox Ukrainians and Catholic Lithuanians.

Thinking in simplistic terms of good and bad, right and wrong, is not helpful if you want to understand history.

Empires fought with each other all the time, that's not the issue. The issue is that with nationalism, common people were suddenly made to identify with the struggle of their rulers and were made to hate common people (civilians) of other nations. It was a new idea that a people have to be represented by a nation and have to live in a geographically defined region without people of other cultures.

Marion Dönhof was the most internationally respected journalist in post-war Germany, she directly participated in the resistance against Hitler, and studied history, especially the history of her own German and Polish ancestors, for years, while studying at a university in Switzerland.

She discovered that before the rise of nationalism, german and polish people were cordial to each other and there was friendship. One of her ancestors was appointed by the Polish King:

"When Ahasverus Lehndorff returned home at the age of twenty-six, the knowledge he had amassed won him universal respect. He went to Poland, where King Kasimir put him in command of all Germans serving in Poland. After six years in Poland he joined the administration of Brandenburg-Prussia, where he held a number of high positions."

The time after 1800 slowly saw the rise of the concept of nation vs. nation, language vs language. We still see this today when people take sides in historical debates and blame one nation over the other, as if history is black and white.

Regarding the partition - the German Assembly of March 31, 1848 proclaimed that it was “the sacred duty of the German people to work with all their might for the reconstitution of the Polish kingdom in order to compensate for the injustice wrought by the partition.”.
Pyserde: like serde-rs but for Python
Which European car? Nearly every one sold in the US has a "US Version" that has to go through DOT rules to be sold here, or even imported if under 25 years old. Otherwise I'd be rolling around in a new VW California.
Lately I've been watching channels like Scary Interesting and Brick Immorter. The diving disaster stories have really hit home about how dangerous water can be. It's amazing how fast someone can go from perfectly fine to stone cold dead while diving. Even free divers are taking their own lives into their hands. One that struck me was the guy who proposed to his wife underwater and passed out, dying before she could even answer his question.

The channels if anyone is interested:
https://www.youtube.com/@BrickImmortar
https://www.youtube.com/@ScaryInteresting
Pretty cool idea. It seems to address most of the UX issues I experience with BBS softwares. The only possible issue I see is density of information. People using mobile devices are not very motivated to read or write long sentences. This may have an impact on the overall quality of discussion. On my personal computer, this very post consumes two lines of text. On my iPhone, it consumes nearly half of the vertical space, thus appearing large (despite shallow content).
If I'm understanding your thought experiment correctly, you are saying that you could stimulate the right part of the brain to cause the person to have an experience of seeing the color red without actually perceiving something red. I think that it would be right to say that they would have gained a more complete understanding of what it is like to perceive the color red, but that's only because you have caused them to actually perceive the color red—that perception just didn't reflect reality. I think we could argue about the definition of "perception", but the important part is that you are making them experience redness firsthand.

If you ask me, there is nothing short of direct firsthand experience that will allow you to understand what it is like to see the color red.

Here's some further reading on that argument, if you're interested:
https://iep.utm.edu/know-arg/
It is not "comparatively simpler." For starters, sighted people usually do not know how to use a screen reader or how blind people navigate web pages.
> Why do you think so many are uninsured if it is so simple for them to get health coverage?

High numbers of people who have illegally immigrated and are worried about getting into programs subsidized by the government which might result in questions about residency status leading to deportation?

High rates of misinformation surrounding the costs of insurance and availability of welfare programs in the state?

I just looked up getting a plan in Texas. 40 year old male non-smoker in Texas earning $45k/yr can get insurance for $128/mo. They're eligible for an HSA, so they can put tax-free savings that roll over every year into an investment account to help cover the $7,400 deductible. PCP and preventative care visits are free. Generic drugs are $10. Urgent care out of pocket is $160. Other plans have slightly higher premiums but much lower deductibles, some have different co-pays.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=KiPQdVC5RHU
If somewhere charged a mandatory 20% “service fee” in lieu of tips, then why don’t they just up the prices 20%?

I mean, sure the prices will go up - but not how much the customer pays. 20% mandatory on $100 is $120. Increasing prices by 20% is still $120.

What am I missing?
Cool. I also wrote one in nuklear that works on Win9x and up, MacOS8/9/X-up, *nix and even BeOS/Haiku.
> This isn't really anything new

Not true.

As someone who’s recently spoken to a genetic counselor about this very issue, this is basically a 180 degree turn.

Now, researchers say APOE4 shouldn’t just be recognized as a risk factor, it should be viewed as an inherited form of the disease, virtually assuring that a person who has two copies will get the biological changes associated with Alzheimer’s disease in their brains.
For anyone who wants to search their area for beaches you can go to

https://overpass-turbo.eu/?template=key-value&key=natural&va...

zoom in to the area then click run. For London it seems there is a beach by Embankment tube.
This is rather similar to the OPM hack the US suffered a while back. The MO is to collect information (name, address, financial situation) on people with security clearances for espionage purposes later on, especially when combined with information they have obtained through other hacks.
So here is my understanding of your point, feel free to correct it in a clearer statement, since your point still seems incomprehensible to me.

You are saying that denying the rights of Jews to self determination in their native land is not antisemitic, because Jewish identity is tied into both an ethnicity and a religion, making Jews inherent murderers and thus undeserving of a state. This is as opposed to say the French or German people, whose identity is mostly ethnic, who have a long history of peace, devoid of genocide, murder and disenfranchisement.
Show HN: Took me a year to release a candidate testing tool with code challenges
We've recently added code execution tests to our portfolio on TestZebra.com. Supports 5 programming languages at the moment. And we are working on adding frontend challenges for e.g. React, Vue, Angular and Svelte.

We would love your feedback and let me know if you need any extra free credits!
You are simply wrong. Multiple US military customers have been taking delivery of Pulsar for years now. Why make things up?
Once more, it's not undecided. Coinbase tried exactly the same argument in their case and lost.
linux not affected if network namespaces are used to separate vpn and physical interfaces.
I know user agreements are a bit of a punchline, but when you created an account with SO presumably[1] you also agreed to waive certain copyright/ownership claims on your contributions, and in general you voluntarily agreed to benefit SO’s business by contributing there. Same as Twitter, etc. That is not the case for ChatGPT. OpenAI definitely trained it on my personal GitHub account, along with everyone else’s, yet I don’t remember accepting an agreement with GitHub that said any Microsoft subsidiary could use my code for whatever they wanted.
Is there a tl;dr so we don't have to wade through swathes of AI generated text explaining what a network is?
Yes yes there’s a holocaust, a few wars, plenty of human rights violations, people going hungry, and a bunch of other shit but frankly I don’t care and your holier than thou attitude doesn’t help instill any passion in these topics for me or anyone else reading your comment. Go read ayn rand or some shit
It is unfortunate, the old windows media stack had a nice drag and drop UI that let you connect different inputs and sinks together in all sorts of weird and cool ways. Back when I used Windows 2000 I was able plug a game console into a capture card and split the audio and video inputs so they both went out over streaming video and were visible/audible on my local machine.

Not that anyone cared about watching live streamed video game footage back in 2001 or so.
In Canada, it's actually worse than stated. You do have a prepayment penalty as long as current interest rates are lower than your loan's interest rate.

Now that interest rates are higher than they were a couple of years ago, TD Canada Trust waived all my prepayment penalties. They were happy to let me prepay as much as I wanted.

It's incredible how one-sided the Canadian system is. Prepayment is acceptable as long as the bank benefits. Prepayment is not ok when the person taking out the loan benefits.
I use Amoeba too, really nice piece of software:)
Thank you very much for your comments guys! I am definitely learning a lot.

I was encouraged to write the post just in case someone happened to have the same problem, hopefully ended up on the site and could find some light here.

Now thanks to you I realise that I made the mistake of using getDisplayLanguage() instead of getLanguage(). The former returns the text of the language. The second one returns the universal code of the language.

As I said at the end, I'm not an Android developer and I guess in my haste and tiredness I settled for the first thing that seemed to work without much thought to good practice or whether I was actually getting the language code or not. A very silly bug but as it worked most of the time for some reason, it was almost impossible to find the first time. And of course, snipped was a simplification of a more complex system with persistence handling and so on, which made it not so obvious.

I certainly think all of us here won't make this mistake in the future :)
A typical grocery store will carry on the order of 40,000 unique products. Costco is hard limited to a max of 3,700 unique products. If a store wants to bring a new product in, something must be rotated out. This also means that if a product wants to stay in Costco, it has to sell a certain minimum number of pallets, per month, to be worth it.
Technology Connections did a great video on the Popcorn button and why it sucks on most microwaves.

https://youtu.be/Limpr1L8Pss
Shows the superficiality of training in censorship / alignment. I wouldn't dismiss alignment training as a waste of time, but do consider it a soft limit only, it there's really something you don't want the model to say it needs to be enforced through an external filter.
Until there's adequate regulation to prevent this, someone really needs to setup a database with technical info about the telematics units in different cars, with instructions about how to physically disable them (and maybe products to make doing so easier).

Some ideas:

* Some kind of wiring harness or device that allows the telematics unit to be disconnected completely without affecting other car functions (e.g. I've read sometimes the in-car microphone routes through them, so disabling it can cause hands-free calling to not work).

* A fake CANbus that lies to the telematics unit, which it will then pass on fake data to the data brokers (e.g. you are driving 25mph all the time, every time, and gently coming to a stop every 5 minutes).

* A mod to replace the cell-network antenna with a dummy load (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dummy_load).
> There is a market but not enough profit in serving it, unfortunately.

There would be if they tried, perhaps?
But surely if it was exposed they have to assume it was taken?

If you can view the data then you could have saved it locally, print it or screenshot it, even write it down with a notepad and pen.

For all intents and purposes if they've accessed it, they've taken it?
Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg might be a better book for you. The key to building habits is to start with a habit that is ridiculously small and once you feel like you've got that locked in, you can add another ridiculously small habit on top of it.

e.g. To build a flossing habit, floss just one tooth a day. Once you've got into the habit of pulling out floss and flossing just one tooth, you can move onto flossing two teeth and so on.

If at any point you feel resistance to doing the bigger habit you're trying to build up, you can always revert back to doing the initial tiny habit of flossing just one tooth.
Scroll down to "What is DHCP option 121?" and start reading there.
I read a book called "Brain trust" last year about prion diseases being the cause of massive increases in Alzheimers cases. The idea was intriguing but one fact the author mentioned was about how the US does not test meat in decent intervals for CJD or other prion diseases, while Japan does. The book was written in the early 2000's so alot of the stuff that was posited can be checked today and that was one thing that I did check, comparing Japans rate of Alzheimers to the US and both countries are seeing the same huge uptick in cases. So it seems like its a global issue and not really one that is based in the US due to "potentially" infected meat.

On a side note I know alot of people(not related to me) that are being affected with severe memory issues in their 60's and 70's. A friends Dad is in a memory care facility and he is in his mid 60's and was extremely fit(he was also a avid hunter - unsure if this was a cause). My Wife's aunt's Mom (not related by blood to her) has severe dementia and is in her 70's and needs $7k a month constant memory care. A friends mom has sundowners and every day her memory "erases", my Friend was looking into memory care for her and was quoted $13k a month for this. All these cases seem quite strange as the individuals led normal lives and then just started suffering these extreme memory/brain issues. I do not know what is causing it but I think its alot more widespread than people know.
Entertainment? What's the point of playing any game, assuming you are not a pro making money from it?
I know about that mechanism but I use it so infrequently that I have to look it up every time; the syntax doesn't really match anything else I know. It's also hard to look up because even the right search terms fetch a lot of nearby-concept results so I have to dig for the exact idea.

(Probably this is an ideal LLM question though!)
> There is no reason you can't show final price including tax on the label in a physical shop.

Sure there is. When the price label is affixed by the factory/warehouse then you would have to track where everything is going and be unable to share inventory. Also, if the sales tax rate changes then all the labels become wrong. These would ultimately increase costs for consumers.

Adding sales tax is also not at all misleading because the customer is not going to be surprised by it and there isn't going to be a competing merchant across the street who can avoid charging it.

There are also business customers with their own sales tax ID and they can buy things without paying sales tax when they're being incorporated into a product where they collect the sales tax themselves.

> There is no reason why a restaurant should be able to charge a 20% service charge instead of increasing regular prices by 20%.

This is actually true. A mandatory undisclosed fee is BS. But it doesn't help much, because if they want to do it then they just make it "optional" where the way to avoid it is more of an inconvenience than paying the fee.

> They can upsell you on additional services, but they can't suddenly notice in the last checkout step that your price is higher because the website you are using is charging a fee; that fee was known to them at the beginning of the transaction and should have to be disclosed at that point in time at the latest.

The last step is where you disclose your address. Before that they may not even know which country you're in, much less the city/state, and there are a thousand legitimate reasons to have different prices or fees in different jurisdictions.

> If you want to go even further you can also dictate that shipping and handling fees are only allowed to include reasonable costs of actual shipping and handling.

That doesn't really help, they're typically charging the actual cost. They just don't include it in the advertised price because it makes you inclined to make the purchase online instead of saving $10 by picking it up for the same price but no shipping charge the next time you go to the competing local store.

There's a reason Amazon's major competitive advantage is free two day shipping, derived from having the scale to achieve low shipping costs themselves.
Is it a different situation? Seems similar to me, except the examples we know about (the obvious ones) are the low skill examples. If someone played the long game like xz and made some helpful improvements to the project in that time, we wouldn’t know about it.

People have also done the same thing (to great effect) on the chrome extension “store” to get all manner of malware into chrome extension updates.

“Nobody unsubtle was successful” tells us nothing about the success rate of subtle attackers. It’s like looking at all the dodgy ssh and http requests any host on the internet is connected to and concluding “yep, 0% of low effort script kiddie attacks get through. I’m 100% safe from hackers!”
Hate to say it, but I don't know how trust worthy those studies are especially the one claiming vent hoods have no impact! If I cook bacon on my stove without a venthood the entire main floor would reek and require opening windows and doors to air it out. With a vent hood there is literally no issue with smell. Are you telling me that the vent hood is somehow picks and chooses which pollutants to expel leaving behind NO2? What mechanism would there be to cause it to behave this way? I'll choose to believe my lying eyes.
Using DuckDB to seamlessly query a large parquet file over HTTP
This isn't a neat enough feature to justify ramming it down the throat of consumers.

We want RELIABLE, FUNCTIONAL, DURABLE appliances. Any additional SMART integrations are overkill and there should be a base model without them. Let the people who want them pay for them.

What would turn this on its head? Requiring manufacturers to pay a subscription fee to people they collect data from, for the lifetime of the data feed.
PyTorch Neat
Thank you!

Editing is definitely on the roadmap. We would like to have an agent to sync edits with your local workspace at some point.
Pretty funny coming from an industry where no one does any real work...
Great summary. Always hard to tell whether proposed experiments are doable within a reasonable timeframe. Sounds like this one is not, but perhaps by defining a new category it may lead to one that is.
I was also cynical at first but it ended up as a triumph over C-suite politics.

This person took a nonsense buzzword "productivity" and turned it into actual measurable numbers which make sure the company is moving forward, and linked those numbers to enjoyable developer activities.

This seems like a good outcome to me. The C-suite actively don't want the developers spending time fixing bugs and doing drudge work. Developers are incentivised to avoid bugs with good code and testing. They can knock back bad implementations because those will lead to more bugs which the C-suite have said they don't want.

Seems like a win to me?
More bollards on intersection corners (which is the specific intervention the article author is saying they want first and foremost) wouldn't interfere with that though, they're usually double yellow lined already.

In fact, it strikes me that "places where you shouldn't try and park a car because your car would probably be hit by a car" would make a pretty decent heuristic for places to start.
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Knew I couldn't be the only one.
I think it's popularity among layfolk, like myself, was a fad. I'd be incredibly surprised if it's flying off the shelves now like it was right after release.

But popularity doesn't validate or invalidate its content.
I never understood buying things that I can't afford. I always thought you earn money and when you earn enough money to buy something you can buy that something. That is always how I have lived life.

For that reason I also find it ridiculous that it's the social norm to take debt to buy a roof to put over your head. A (simple, clean, functional) house is a basic need, not a luxury item. I always assumed that if I don't have the cash for a house, I can't afford a house. In those terms, I can't afford a house right now, so I've been renting the whole time.

I think it should be the social norm for the median income to be able to buy a house with cash. For that to happen either people need to be making $1M/year median, or house prices need to come down to 1/5 of what they are.
This theory comes up every so often [0] (57 points, 3 years ago, 55 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26736320
Protests today have nothing on the past. The grousing and whining from slightly inconvenience professors and colleges woeful that there's been a tiny bit of property damage are ridiculous next to a historical backdrop of what it took to get civil rights, what it took to end slavery, what it took to get labor rights. There's a much stronger streak of authoritarianism, of intolerance to any disruption.

Telling people to go to the ballots and not vote seems like a very bad idea to me. You stand to deeply deeply injure & remove from power the people you probabpy best identify with, in 95% of cases. The new blood you vote for 4 or 6 years down the road after you get your representative kicked out are going to be fighting an incumbent, which typically is seen as a harder challenge.
The comments are a DAG. The ideas go in circles.

But I'm not sure you can get an automated map from comments to ideas, no matter what data structure you use...